"She's in her room - she kept her prisoner, and she's working with her now."

"Oh. Huh. What's up with that, anyway?"

"She wants to understand why the colonials were kidnapping people - they did actually believe that they were rescuing them, or they wouldn't have been able to trick her into going with them. The better she understands why they believe that, the easier it will be for her to recognize them if they try again, which she thinks they will. And she expects the higher-ranking SLAYER pilot to have a better understanding of it, and she has the most claim to her, since she defeated her in single combat."

"I guess that makes sense."

"It's a fairly typical reaction from a Sith; I suppose it wouldn't come up, here."

"No, when we defeat people in single combat, we mostly just stick them in the UH?"

She nods. "I think she intends to let her go with the rest of the colonials, yes. She's certainly not going to keep her permanently."

"We might want to start thinking about checking out the cloister ourselves. Nilam?"

"Sounds good."

"I can show you where it is."

Shreya's guide, standing on the periphery of this conversation, does not raise any objections to DZ doing her job for her.

Shreya's guide, like most of Saru's princesses, is generally Very Chill About Such Things.

Off she'll go, then. She points out some of the nicer art on the way.

So much nice art!

Shreya is a little tired but not too tired to appreciate nice art.

And soon enough they get to the gate. She pauses to see whether the guide will step up to open it, or seems to think that it'll open for her.

The guide opens the gate.

"Deskyl has that one," she points out their room. "I expect she'll be asleep most of the time, though."

"She'll be okay, right? Her... uh... 'magical injury' will get better?"

(Shreya's guide stops outside a room a couple doors down. She waits patiently.)

"Yes, Ma'am. She's already improved quite a bit; it wasn't clear that she was going to survive it, when it first happened."

"When what happened?"

"When she was injured - it happened before we came here, a few times in fact. We don't actually know what was done to her, just that she was taken, and came back badly damaged and with no memory of it; they were trying to take her again when she teleported here. But she is recovering; I'm not sure how much of a setback this will be, but she was expecting to be able to do the magic that will let her hear again within a cycle or so, for example."

“Can other people where you’re from ‘teleport’? Could the ones that tried to take her before come here?”

She shakes her head. "No, Ma'am. Sith can do surprising things under duress, but they can't usually teleport at all."

“That’s... good..?”

Shreya shakes her head and exhales.

”I should get to sleep. It’s been a long handful of degrees.”

"Yes, Ma'am. Nilam, should I ask if you can use one of the rooms here?"